Cairo attracts visitors from around the world for its cultural and historical heritage, but there is another side to the city. Manshiyat Naser , also called Cairo’s Garbage City, is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Cairo. It is a place where the inhabitants are trying to create an economy out of the things that other…
Perception by eL Seed In the Neiberourhoud of Manshiyat Nasr in Cairo, the Coptic community of Zaraeeb has been collecting the trash of the city for decades. Even though they are marginaziled because of their association with the trash, they have in fact managed to develop one of the world’s most efficient and highly…
Street photography is all about telling stories. “Learning what you don’t want to photograph is only half of the battle, though a large half. It’s also the half which can be put into words.” Handprints of blood, an Egyptian ritual to dip hands in the blood of the sacrificial animal and to put prints all…
Manshiyat Nasser, or as it is more popularly known, “Garbage City,“ is a slum settlement with a population of around 70,000 in Cairo, Egypt. The inhabitants, mostly Coptic Christians, have filled this area for the past 70 years. These informal garbage collectors, called the Zabbaleen or “Garbage people,“ collect the garbage of Cairo’s…
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